recognition for same-sex couples in terms other than those of marriage, has become increasingly popular among heterosexual couples …

Research has found that married individuals who cohabited only once before marriage with their future spouse (i … marriage is associated with gains for financial and nonfinancial wealth, increasing home equity, and decreasing debt over time …. Spousal cohabiters begin marriage with more debt than the directly married. Conditional on education, income, and other key …

ways. First we explicitly modeled cohabitation distinct from marriage. Second, we included lagged health in our models to … that cohabitation is as beneficial as marriage for health was good news for health policy as changing social norms and …There has been a large empirical literature on the effect of marriage on health, but scant empirical evidence on the …

find that unions entered via cohabitation contribute significantly to the likelihood of experiencing a long-term union, and …

The explosive expansion of non-marital cohabitation in Latin America since the 1970s has led to the narrowing of the … research to a range of developing countries, where since early colonial times, traditional forms of cohabitation among the poor …, uneducated sectors of society have coexisted with marriage, although to widely varying degrees from country to country. In recent …

formation of the first union by marriage or by cohabitation for ten-year birth cohorts from 1911 to 1981 among several … the formation of the first union by marriage and its replacement by cohabitation in Quebec is typical of French …The rise of cohabitation in Quebec has attracted the interest of some demographers who have documented it, but why or …

at marriage and at start of cohabitation as well as the duration of relationship type matters for subjective well … in marriage, while cohabitants are more satisfied initially. A significant cohabitation gap exists (0.251), but after … suggests that marriage and cohabitation are very similar in South Africa. Relative income, absolute income, and education …

effects of marriage status and the presence of children on happiness and satisfaction with family life differ according to the … perceived importance of marriage and parenthood in society. We find significant cross-country differences in the relationship … their happiness and satisfaction with family life. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2013 …